W. Mark Felt, on the set of CBS's Face the Nation in 1976.

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Howard Simons, the managing editor of the Washington Post at the time, dubbed the secret informant "Deep Throat", an allusion to a pornographic movie of the same name that had become a minor cultural phenomenon during the period; it was also a word play on the term "deep background", used in journalism to mean information provided by a secret source that may not be reported directly. "Deep Throat" came to public attention when Woodward and Bernstein wrote All The President's Men, a book also made into an Academy Award-winning movie. In the movie, "Deep Throat" was portrayed by Hal Holbrook. This page is about the Washington Post editor. ... Deep Throat is an American pornographic movie released in the summer of 1972, written and directed by Gerard Damiano and starring Linda Lovelace (the pseudonym of Linda Susan Boreman). ... Pornographic movies are movies that explicitly depict sexual intercourse and other sexual acts, for the purpose of sexual arousal in the viewer. ... In journalism, background is a term used by some journalists to describe a communication between a source and a journalist, where the journalist does not identify the source, but repeats the information the source has provided. ... All the Presidents Men is a 1974 non-fiction book by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for the Washington Post. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony in the world. ... Holbrook as Twain, 1957. ...

The identity of "Deep Throat" was one of the biggest mysteries of American politics and journalism in recent times, and for more than 30 years, the source of much public curiosity. Woodward and Bernstein insisted they would not reveal his identity until he died or consented to have his identity revealed. And on May 31, 2005, after William Mark Felt, Sr. himself revealed his identity in a Vanity Fair magazine article, Woodward, Bernstein, and former Post executive editor Ben Bradlee confirmed that Felt was the Watergate source known as "Deep Throat". The Federal Government of the United States was established by the United States politics is dominated by the two major parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. ... Journalism is a discipline of collecting, analyzing, verifying, and presenting information gathered regarding current events, including trends, issues and people. ... May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... W. Mark Felt on the set of CBSs Face the Nation in 1976. ... American actress Demi Moore, on a typical Vanity Fair cover (August, 1991) Vanity Fair is a glossy American glamour magazine monthly that offers a mixture of articles based on sensational exaggerations, jet-set and entertainment-business personalities, politics, and lies. ... Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (born August 26, 1921) is the vice president of the Washington Post. ...

Hints to his identity

According to Woodward in his book, The Secret Man, released in July 2005, "Deep Throat"'s identity was known only to seven people: "Deep Throat" himself, Woodward, Woodward's wife Kathleen, Bernstein, their editor Benjamin C. Bradlee, his successor Leonard Downie Jr., and by a perspicacious Assistant US Attorney General named Stanley Pottinger. Woodward said in repeated interviews that the identity of "Deep Throat" would be kept confidential until "Deep Throat" died or agreed to let his real name be made public. Plans, however, fell apart, and Woodward revealed in The Secret Man that during a 1976 grand jury appearance over break-ins that Felt ordered, a grand juror asked Felt, "Were you 'Deep Throat'?" Felt "seemed to go white" and answered no. Pottinger, present at the questioning, requested the stenographer stop typing and then whispered to Felt: Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (born August 26, 1921) is the vice president of the Washington Post. ... Many of the divisions and offices of the United States Department of Justice are headed by an Assistant Attorney General. ...

"You are under oath so you have to answer truthfully. On the other hand, I consider the question to be outside the bounds of our official investigation, so if you prefer, I'll withdraw the question. What would you like me to do?" Felt had the question withdrawn. At a lunch meeting with Woodward, Pottinger recounted his uncloaking to an astonished Woodward.

In the years prior to Felt's disclosure, there was much speculation about the identity of "Deep Throat." Woodward would only confirm that "Deep Throat" was a specific man (and not a woman) in Nixon's administration — not a composite of several secret informants — and who smoked heavily and liked drinking scotch. A bottle of an independent bottling of Royal Brackla Single Malt Scotch whisky is a whisky made in Scotland. ...

Woodward gave specific denials to six other possibilities, at the request of those people:

• General Alexander Haig
• Earl Silbert
• John Sears
• Diane Sawyer
• Cord Meyer Jr. (a CIA official)
• William Colby (the CIA director)

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Deep Throat revealed

Washington Post June 1, 2005 cover displaying W. Mark Felt

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• Richard Nixon himself believed that Felt might be "Deep Throat," but did not try to oust him. His stated rationale for this was that if he had done so, Felt would have publicly revealed information damaging to the FBI, and to other powerful people and institutions. Nixon at the time stated Felt "knows everything there is to know in the FBI". Nixon's motives in not ousting Felt may not have been entirely altruistic and purely patriotic. There is little doubt that the man who would have been most damaged had Felt publicly revealed all that he knew would have been Richard M. Nixon.

• Carl Bernstein did not even share "Deep Throat"'s identity with his immediate family, including wife Nora Ephron (As he said on NBC's Today Show on June 2, 2005, "I was never dumb enough to tell [Ephron]." She said, "...which was very smart because I would have told the whole world by now." Ephron became obsessed with figuring out the secret and eventually correctly concluded it was Mark Felt. [1] In 1999, a 19-year-old college freshman, Chase Culeman-Beckman, claimed to have been told by Bernstein's son that Felt was "Deep Throat." According to Culeman-Beckman, Jacob Bernstein had said that he was "100 percent sure that 'Deep Throat' was Mark Felt. He's someone in the FBI." Jacob had reportedly said this approximately 11 years prior, when he and Culeman-Beckman were classmates. Ephron explained that their son overheard her "speculations" and Carl Bernstein himself also immediately stepped forward to refute the claim but many did not believe these claims.
• James Mann, who had worked at the Post at the time of Watergate and was close to the investigation, brought a great deal of evidence together in a 1992 article in The Atlantic Monthly that fingered Felt and convinced many. He argued that the information that "Deep Throat" gave Woodward could only have come from FBI files. Felt was also embittered at having been passed over for the Director General position at the FBI and believed that the FBI in general was hostile to the Nixon Administration. In previous unrelated articles, Woodward had made clear he had a highly placed source at the FBI, and there is some evidence he was friends with Felt.
• Woodward has kept in close touch with Felt over the years, even showing up unexpectedly at his house in 1999, after Felt's dementia began. Woodward showed up unexpectedly at the home of Felt's daughter, Joan, in Santa Rosa, California, as well. Some suspected at that time that Woodward might be asking Felt if he could reveal him to be "Deep Throat," though Felt, when asked directly by others, had consistently denied being "Deep Throat."
• In 2002, Timothy Noah called Felt "the best guess going about the identity of 'Deep Throat'."
• In February 2005, Nixon's former White House Counsel (and current news columnist) John Dean reported that Woodward had recently informed Bradlee that "Deep Throat" was ailing and close to death, and that Bradlee had written "Deep Throat"'s obituary. Both Woodward and the current editor of the Washington Post, Leonard Downie, denied these claims. Felt was something of a suspect, especially after the mysterious meeting that occurred between Woodward and Felt in the summer of 1999. But others received more attentions, such as Pat Buchanan, Henry Kissinger, long-time Chief Justice William Rehnquist, General Haig, and Diane Sawyer, before it was revealed that "Deep Throat" was definitely not female.

On May 31, 2005, Vanity Fair magazine reported that William Mark Felt, then aged 91, claimed to be the man once known as "Deep Throat." Later that day, Woodward, Bernstein and Bradlee released a statement through the Washington Post confirming that the story was true, finally bringing to rest the most enduring mystery in modern American politics. Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ... Nora Ephron Nora Ephron (born May 19, 1941 in New York City, New York) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and novelist. ... June 2 is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (154th in leap years), with 212 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Alternate uses: Student (disambiguation) Etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stŭdērĕ, which means to study, a student is one who studies. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... February 1862 edition of The Atlantic Monthly, with The Battle Hymn of the Republic on the front page. ... For other senses of this word, see dementia (disambiguation). ... The Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center Luther Burbank Gardens, part of California Historical Landmark No. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Ongoing events • Iraqi legislative election • Bill C-38 (Canada gay marriage) • Tsunami relief Upcoming events • March 11: Red Nose Day 2005 in the UK. Deaths in February • 26 – Jef Raskin • 25 – Hugh Nibley • 25 – Peter Benenson • 21... The White House Counsel is a staff appointee of the President of the United States. ... John Dean, May 7, 1972. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (152nd in leap years), with 214 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On June 2, 2005, the Washington Post ran a lengthy front-page article by Woodward in which he detailed his friendship with Felt in the years before Watergate. Woodward wrote that he first met Felt by chance in 1970, when Woodward was a Navy lieutenant in his mid-twenties who was dispatched to deliver a package to the White House's West Wing. Felt arrived soon after, for a separate appointment, and sat next to Woodward in the waiting room. Woodward struck up a conversation, eventually learning of Felt's high position in the FBI. Woodward, who was about to get out of the Navy at the time and was unsure about his future direction in life, became determined to use Felt as a mentor and career advisor, and so he got Felt's phone number and kept in touch with him. June 2 is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (154th in leap years), with 212 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Look up Mentor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary In Greek mythology, Mentor (sometimes Mentês) was the son of Alcumus and, in his old age, a friend of Odysseus. ...

After deciding to try a career as a reporter, Woodward eventually joined the Washington Post in August, 1971. Felt, who Woodward writes had long had a dim view of the Nixon Administration, began passing pieces of information to Woodward, although he insisted that Woodward keep the FBI and Justice Department out of anything he wrote based on the information. The first time Woodward used information from Felt in a Washington Post story was in mid-May of 1972, a month before the Watergate burglary, when Woodward was investigating the man who had attempted to assassinate Presidential candidate George C. Wallace of Alabama. Nixon had put Felt in charge of investigating the would-be assassin as well. A month later, just days after the Watergate break-in, Woodward would call Felt at his office, marking the first time Woodward spoke with Felt about Watergate. August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... George Corley Wallace (August 25, 1919–September 13, 1998) was an American politician who was elected Governor of Alabama (as a Democrat) four times (1962, 1970, 1974 and 1982) and ran for U.S. President (in 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976). ...

Commenting on Felt's motivations for serving as his "Deep Throat" source, Woodward wrote, "Felt believed he was protecting the bureau by finding a way, clandestine as it was, to push some of the information from the FBI interviews and files out to the public, to help build public and political pressure to make Nixon and his people answerable. He had nothing but contempt for the Nixon White House and their efforts to manipulate the Bureau for political reasons."

Interestingly, in 1980, Felt himself was convicted of ordering illegal break-ins at the homes of Weathermen suspects, and their families. Ironically, Richard Nixon testified on his behalf — for the man who did so much to expose the multiple abuses and criminality of his Administration. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Weather Underground redirects here. ...

Composite character theory

Although speculation always tended to focus on identifying "Deep Throat" as an individual, it was periodically suggested that the famous source was actually a composite character combining information the reporters obtained from several sources. When various accounts tried to identify the source based on the information provided by Woodward and Bernstein, they generally also sought to rebut alternative theories. The resulting evidence against each candidate suggested that either the reporters' tale was inconsistent, or that no single person fit the facts. Some analysts believed that the "Deep Throat" character was primarily a dramatic device used by the reporters to liven up their book's narrative. Before his admission, on previous occasions Felt himself had said he thought the character was likely a composite.

Other suspected candidates

Fred Fielding

Another leading candidate was White House Associate Counsel Fred F. Fielding. In April 2003 Fielding was presented as a potential candidate as a result of a detailed review of source material by William Gaines and his journalism students, as part of a class at the University of Illinois journalism school. [2] [3] Fielding was the assistant to John Dean and as such had access to the files relating to the affair. Gaines felt that statements by Woodward ruled out "Deep Throat"'s being in the FBI and that "Deep Throat" often had information before the FBI did. H.R. Haldeman himself suspected Fielding as being "Deep Throat." Fred Fisher Fielding (born March 21, 1939) is senior partner at Wiley, Rein, & Fielding, a Washington, D.C. law firm. ... 2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - → A timeline of events in the news for April 2003. ... William Gaines is a professor of journalism who led a study with several of his students in 2003 to determine the identity of Watergate informant Deep Throat. ... The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, also known as UIUC and the U of I (the officially preferred abbreviation), is the flagship campus in the University of Illinois system. ...

Dean had been one of the most dedicated hunters of "Deep Throat." Both he and Leonard Garment dismissed Fielding as a possibility, reporting that he had been cleared by Woodward in 1980 when Fielding was applying for an important position in the Ronald Reagan administration. However this assertion, which comes from Fielding, has not been corroborated. Leonard Garment was acting special counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon for the last two years of his presidency. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ...

One reason that many experts believed that "Deep Throat" was Fielding and not Felt was due to Woodward's apparent denial in an interview that "Deep Throat" worked in the intelligence community:

LUKAS: Do you resent the implication by some critics that your sources on Watergate — among them the fabled "Deep Throat" — may have been people in the intelligence community?

WOODWARD: I resent it because it's untrue. Quote from Playboy interview, 1979

In retrospect, it appears that Woodward was only excluding the CIA, NSA, DIA, etc., with that statement, and not the FBI.

Other credible candidates

Other suggested candidates included:

• John Ehrlichman: Nixon advisor. Died prior to Dean's 2005 article which indicated that "Deep Throat" was still alive.
• Ron Ziegler: press secretary. Died prior to Dean's 2005 article which indicated that "Deep Throat" was still alive.
• William E. Colby: head of the CIA. Died prior to Dean's 2005 article which indicated that "Deep Throat" was still alive.
• Charles W. Bates: FBI executive that Mann mentioned but considered less likely than Felt.
• William C. Sullivan: former head of the FBI intelligence operations, fired by J. Edgar Hoover in 1971.
• L. Patrick Gray: acting FBI director, who lived only four blocks away from Woodward, fingered by a CBS documentary.
• Robert Kunkel: FBI Washington Bureau Chief that Mann mentioned but considered less likely than Felt as he moved to St. Louis partway through the investigation.
• Cord Meyer: CIA agent fingered in Mark Riebling's Wedgie: The Secret War Between the FBI and the CIA. However, in an interview, Woodward stated that "Deep Throat" was not part of the intelligence community.
• Raymond Price: Nixon speechwriter.
• Stephen Bull: administrative assistant.
• Senator Lowell Weicker: U.S. Senator from Connecticut, believed by Pat Buchanan to possibly be "Deep Throat."
• Secret Service technicians: Richard Cohen argued it was whoever in the Secret Service maintained Nixon's secret taping devices.

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Famous, but less credible, candidates

• William Rehnquist: Formerly the Chief Justice of the United States, had a position in the Department of Justice early in the Nixon administration, working for Attorney General John N. Mitchell. More than five months before the Watergate break-in he was appointed to the Supreme Court and it would have been almost impossible for him to have had access to much of the information "Deep Throat" was meant to have provided. In February 2005, Dean reported that "Deep Throat" was ailing, leading many to believe that Rehnquist was "Deep Throat." However, Woodward later stated that the notion that "Deep Throat" was ailing was a misunderstanding.
• Henry Kissinger: Nixon's National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, was out of the country on some of the dates Woodward reported to have met with "Deep Throat."
• George H. W. Bush: Was nominated in February 2005 by Adrian Havill — author of a 1993 biography of Woodward and Bernstein, Deep Truth (ISBN 1559721723) — following the unveiling of Woodward's notes at the University of Texas. Havill had argued in his biography that "Deep Throat" was a composite figure, but stated in a letter to Poynter Online that based on more recent events and research, he now believed "Deep Throat" was George H. W. Bush.
• General Alexander Haig: Authors Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin speculated in their 1991 book Silent Coup: The Removal of a President that Haig may have been "Deep Throat."
• Diane Sawyer: Was hired by White House press secretary Ron Ziegler to serve in the Richard Nixon Administration.
• Ben Stein: A Nixon speechwriter and the son of Nixon economic advisor Herbert Stein; later an actor and political commentator.
• Gerald R. Ford: Nixon's successor.
• Pat Buchanan: Served as special assistant to the President, was nominated as a potential candidate by Dean in his June 2002 book Unmasking Deep Throat. Buchanan repeatedly denied the claim, stating in a Time magazine article on the 30th anniversary of the Watergate break-in that "The last time I cooperated with the Washington Post...was in 1952, when I was a paper boy delivering the damn thing in northwest Washington."

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Popular culture references

Television

• In an episode of War of the Worlds television series, the rogue Quinn refers to himself as being "Deep Throat" when he meets secretly with reporter Cash McCullough to uncover the Blackwood Project. When Cash asks for his name, Quinn replies "Woodward and Bernstein didn't need a name." He later calls the two "ungrateful bastards."

• On NewsRadio, the character Jimmy James (Stephen Root) claims to have been "Deep Throat."

• On Will & Grace, the character Karen Walker (Megan Mullally) implied she was "Deep Throat" . . . "only to one of them."

• On The X-Files, lead character FBI agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) meets with an anonymous source called Deep Throat to get clues as to how to proceed with investigating cases.

• On The Simpsons, Waylon Smithers meets up with Bart and Lisa to reveal fraud in the Springfield mayoral elections. Lisa is proud of their being "just like Woodward and Bernstein", while Bart replies "Yeah, except their dad wasn't waiting in the car reading Archie comics." Smithers, lurking in the shadows as "Deep Throat" takes a drag from his cigarette and states that all he can reveal is how he worked on the election campaign, but is interrupted by Homer Simpson, who turns on his car's headlights and shouts "Hey, Mr. Smithers!". An exasperated Smithers replies "Well, you might as well give me a ride home now". [4]

• On Sabrina The Teenage Witch, to get information for a school newspaper article about her principal, Sabrina interviews a mysterious student called "Sore Throat."

• In the first season of [[Alias (TV Series)|Alias], reporter Will Tippin is contacted by an anonymous source, whom he calls "Deep Throat" on at least one occassion.

• On The Fairly OddParents, in the made-for-TV movie Channel Chasers, Tootie disguises herself as "Deep Toot" to give information about Vicky to Timmy's parents.

• On Tiny Toon Adventures, Plucky Duck meets up with Buster and Babs Bunny to clear Buster's name of the cheating test scandal, thus bring down Montana Max in the student body presidential elections. He prefers to be called "Deep Quack" and leads the rabbit duo to the studio and reveals the close up of the segment where Buster is framed for cheating on a test.

• In the Family Guy episode "Deep Throats", Brian Griffin, looking for information that Mayor Adam West is corrupt, meets with a shadowed informer who, as he figures out, is actually Kermit the Frog.

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Film

• A significant part of the plot of the 1999 film Dick depicts the film's 15-year-old, female protagonists as Deep Throat.

• In Hey Arnold!: The Movie, Helga Pataki, in an attempt to help Arnold save his neighborhood, speaks to him via walkie talkie while using an electronic voice changer and the pseudonym "Deep Voice".

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Literature

• In the novel The Truth by Terry Pratchett, an individual code-naming himself "Deep Bone" passes inside information about an ongoing political scandal to newspaper journalist William de Worde (the novel contains numerous other references to the Watergate scandal in general).

• In the last panel of MAD magazine's parody of the film All the President's Men, "Strep Throat" is revealed to be Gerald Ford.

• In the comic book mini-series Marvel: The Lost Generation, "Deep Throat" was Undersecretary Scott, one of a number of aliases assumed by the Skrull spy Velmax, also the superhero Effigy.

• In Dave Barry's book Dave Barry Slept Here, it is posited that Deep Throat was actually "Pat Nixon in drag".

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Video games

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Music

Several days after the identity of Deep Throat was revealed, a USA Today reporter asked singer-songwriter Carly Simon for the answer to another three-decades-old mystery: Who was the subject of her 1970s mega-hit "You're So Vain"? Simon, who has refused to answer this question countless times, exclaimed with a laugh: "It's about Mark Felt!" [5] USA Today is a national American newspaper published by the Gannett Corporation. ... Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945 in New York City) is an American musician who emerged as one of the leading lights of the early 1970s singer-songwriter boom. ... Youre So Vain is a song written by and performed by Carly Simon in 1972. ...

Literature

The Secret Man by Bob Woodward

• The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat by Bob Woodward. The book, released in 2005, reviews the major points of the Watergate scandal, as well as the role of Mark Felt, aka. "Deep Throat," in uncovering the story. The book also deals with the personal relationship between Woodward and Felt, which existed for sometime before Watergate.

  The book is also available on audiotape; a GFDL audio clip is available, but currently only as an mp3.

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References

• Woodward, Bob. (2005). The Secret Man. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0743287150

External links

• "I'm the Guy They Called Deep Throat". July 2005 Vanity Fair article that revealed that Felt is Deep Throat
• Washington Post Confirms Felt Is 'Deep Throat', a May 31, 2005 article
• "In the Prelude to Publication, Intrigue Worthy of Deep Throat", a June 2, 2005 article from the New York Times
• "How Mark Felt became Deep Throat". Bob Woodward provides a personal account of his friendship with the man who came to be known as Deep Throat
• Special Reports page on Deep Throat from the Washington Post
• Former FBI agent says 3 FBI officials helped W. Mark Felt leak information about Watergate probe to the press, a June 5, 2005 article from the Albany Times-Union
• "New Zealand man's Deep Throat mystery solved", an article from the New Zealand Herald confirming part of the Deep Throat secrecy legend
• Deep Throat Website Has news, articles, FAQs, links, gallery and forum
• References to Felt from the Nixon Presidential Materials maintained by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
• In a Surprise, E&P Voters Pick Rehnquist as 'Deep Throat'. Results of a poll by Editor and Publisher Magazine among journalists, published February 11, 2005.
• ‘Deep Throat’ was FBI point man for Cointelpro New hero of liberals, Stalinists led secret police assault on political freedom the Militant June 27, 2005.